Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the coast of Northumbria in northeast England. It was named for travellers from the Kingdom of Lindsey, and the Irish monk Saint Aidan established a monastery on the island in 634. Lindisfarne became the base for Christian evangelism in northern England, and it became a bishopric under the Archbishopric of York. In 793, Ragnarr Lodbrok's Vikings sacked Lindisfarne, marking the start of the Viking Age. The priory was re-established by the Normans in 1093, and it continued until Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536. Lindisfarne Castle was built in 1550, and the island came to have a population of 180 people in 2011.